George Stone

George Stone (1899-), born Giuseppe Petri, was an American CPD police officer and Bureau of Prohibition special agent during Prohibition. From 1930 to 1931, he was a member of Eliot Ness' special team, "The Untouchables", which famously helped to convict Al Capone of federal income tax evasion in 1931.

Biography
Giuseppe Petri was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, the son of Italian immigrant parents. He changed his name to "George Stone" to avoid discrimination against his Italian heritage, and he joined the Chicago Police Department during his late twenties. He distinguished himself as one of the best shooters in the Class of 1930, and Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness and veteran CPD officer Jimmy Malone recruited Stone out of the Academy due to his shooting skills and his incorruptability. Stone became one of the four members of "The Untouchables", the team of special agents who cracked down on Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit's illegal bootlegging and corruption rackets. Stone helped Ness capture Capone's chief bookmaker Walter Payne after a bloody shootout at Union Station, and he also discovered Frank Nitti's list of bribed jurors during Capone's trial for federal income tax evasion. Stone and Ness avenged the murders of Malone and Oscar Wallace by seeing to it that Judge James Herbert Wilkerson sentenced Capone to 11 years in prison, and, as Ness packed up his belongings to return to the Treasury Department, he gave Stone the St. Jude pendant and callbox key that Malone had given to him, saying that Malone would have wanted a policeman to have it. Stone then returned to the Chicago Police Department as a policeman.